Islam Question and Answer - Competing to carry the bier

Fri 13/1/1430 - 9/1/2009

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Principles of Fiqh » Jurisprudence and Islamic Rulings » Acts of Worship » Funerals and rulings on graves

Competing to carry the bier

I notice in many Muslim funerals men rush to carry the bier and push others away. They run in from the back and those at the front move away so that many men can carry the bier. I ask them why they do this and they say the basis for this is that more people can get blessings for carrying the bier. This seems somewhat unusual because it makes it very likely that the body will actually be dropped and sometimes this indeed occurs. Is there any basis for this practice in Islam?

Shaykh Sa’d al-Humayd.

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